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Klima2011 ![](http://www.uni-graz.at/yvonne.schmidt/New05.gif) 2010United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 16/CMP 6) 29 November - 10 December 2010, Cancun, Mexico Internationale Klimapolitik 2009was a crucial year in the international effort to address climate change. A series of
UNFCCC meetings took place thoughout the year, designed to culminate in an ambitious
and effective international response to climate change, to be agreed at the United Nations
Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen, 7-18
December Copenhagen Accord
Proposals by Parties for a protocol to the Convention and amendment to the Kyoto
Protocol Five Parties have recently made proposals for a protocol under the Convention pursuant to
Article 17 of the Convention. The respective proposals by Parties are available here. The secretariat has also received twelve proposals by Parties for amendment to the Kyoto
Protocol pursuant to Articles 20 and 21 of the Protocol. The respective proposals by Parties
are available here.
COP 15: Marking
a watershed moment in history, the 15th Conference of the Parties under
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, popularly
known as COP15, will convene on 7 December 2009, in Copenhagen, to
respond to one of the greatest challenges facing humanity: climate
change. COP 15 offers an unprecedented opportunity to tackle the climate crisis
while also catalyzing the lower-carbon, green growth that is the
foundation of long-term economic prosperity. Reaching a
deal by the time the COP15 meeting ends on December 18 will depend not
only on the political negotiations but also on the public pressure from
around the globe. Public support must be galvanized. To do this, the
United Nations has launched “Seal the Deal”. The
conference traces its origins to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de
Janiero, Brazil, which aimed at coordinating international action
against climate change. Six years later the Kyoto Protocol was signed
in Japan and two years ago signatories gathered in Bali, Indonesia, to
launch negotiations for stronger action against climate change. This
process will now culminate at the meeting in Copenhagen. More on COP 15 event More on the Negotiations NEW YORK Summit on Climate Change, 19 - 26 September, 2009: "The objective of the Summit on Climate
Change, which I am convening on 22 September, is to mobilize the
political will and vision needed to reach an ambitious agreed outcome
based on science at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen." UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Nearly
100 world leaders accepted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s
invitation to participate in an historic Summit on Climate Change in
New York on 22 September to mobilize political will and strengthen
momentum for a fair, effective, and ambitious climate deal in
Copenhagen this December.
“Failure to reach broad agreement
in Copenhagen would be morally inexcusable, economically short-sighted
and politically unwise,” the Secretary-General said in his opening address. “Now is the moment to act in common cause.”
"There is little time left. The opportunity and responsibility to avoid
catastrophic climate change is in your hands," Mr. Ban said, closing the day-long Summit on Climate Change.
The Summit marked the first UN visit for the Presidents of China and
the United States as well as the newly elected Prime Minister of Japan.
For the complete list of speakers, please see Programme.Read the Secretary-General´s summary of the day! September 2009: About Seal the Deal! The UN-led Seal the Deal Campaign aims to galvanize political will and
public support for reaching a comprehensive global climate agreement in
Copenhagen in December. Climate change affects us all. Nine out of every ten disasters
recorded are now climate related. Rising temperatures and more frequent
floods, droughts and storms affect millions of people’s lives. This is
set against a backdrop of financial and food insecurity. On December 7, governments will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark to
respond to one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. The main
question will be how protect the planet and create a green economy that
will lead to long-term prosperity. Reaching a deal by the time the meeting ends on December 18 will depend
not only on complex political negotiations, but also on public pressure
from around the globe. The United Nations has launched “Seal the Deal” campaign that
encourages users to sign an online, global petition which will be
presented by civil society to governments of the world. The petition will serve as a reminder that our leaders must
negotiate a fair, balanced and effective agreement in Copenhagen, and
that they must seal a deal to power green growth, protect our planet
and build a more sustainable, prosperous global economy that will
benefit all nations and people THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE: STAMP YOUR VOTE AND SEAL THE DEAL!
Business for Climate Change: The
UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that
are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.
By doing so, business, as a primary agent driving globalization, can
help ensure that markets, commerce, technology and finance advance in
ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere. See what Global Business leaders are saying about Seal the Deal “Caring for Climate" is a voluntary and complementary action
platform for UN Global Compact participants who seek to demonstrate
leadership on the issue of climate change. It provides a framework for
business leaders to advance practical solutions and help shape public
policy and attitudes. Chief Executive Officers who endorse the
initiative are prepared to set goals, develop and expand both
strategies and practices, and to publicly disclose emissions through
the UN Global Compact’s reporting mechanism.
Bonn Climate Change Talks - 10-14 August 2009:
The Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties
under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on
Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA held
intersessional informal consultations from 10 to 14 August 2009. The
meetings took place at the Hotel Maritim in Bonn, Germany. The AWG-LCA
had before it a revised negotiating text, resulting from its sixth
session in Bonn in June, which is contained in document FCCC/AWGLCA/2009/INF.1The AWG-KP had before it documentation to
facilitate negotiations among Parties, building upon the work of the AWG-KP at its eighth
session. -
Bonn Climate Change Talks - 1-12 June
2009: At a press conference on the last day of the two-week June meeting, UNFCCC Executive
Secretary Yvo de Boer spoke of a “significant session that has advanced
our work in an important way.” The big achievement of the meeting, he said, is that "it has made clear what
governments want to see in a Copenhagen agreement, which shows their commitment to reaching
an agreement."
With regard to mid-term emission cuts by industrialized countries, he
emphasized the need for these countries to show greater
ambition. Important progress has been made on technology transfer. Parties
welcomed three reports by the Expert Group
on Technology Transfer that provide interesting ideas on what can be written into a
Copenhagen deal on technology cooperation. Major advances on methodologies have also made it
possible to measure and monitor emissions from deforestation, thus laying the groundwork
for the inclusion of REDD into a Copenhagen agreed outcome. Mr. de Boer also referred to encouraging new signals coming from governments and from the
high-level processes that are committed to supporting a successful outcome in
Copenhagen...." Download as Podcast
"The Chair of the AWG-KP has prepared two key documents to be discussed at the Bonn Talks in
June that will provide a basis for the group to intensify negotiations on further emission
reduction commitments for Annex I Parties. One key document focuses on amendments to the Kyoto
Protocol relating to emission reduction commitments of industrialized countries for the second
phase of the Protocol (post-2012). A second document covers other related issues, including
emissions trading and the project-based mechanisms, and land use, land-use change and
forestry. Document on amendments to the Kyoto Protocol Document on other related issues
200820073.- 14.12. 2007, Bali
Vom 3. - 14. Dezember 2007 fanden auf Bali die 13.
Vertragsstaatenkonferenz der Klimarahmenkonvention und die 3.
Vertragsstaatenkonferenz des Kyoto-Protokolls statt. Die EU
strebt an, einen umfassenden Verhandlungsprozess, die "Bali Roadmap" zu
vereinbaren. In ihr sollen die wesentlichen Verhandlungsinhalte
beschrieben und ein Verhandlungszeitplan festgelegt werden. Bis 2009
sollen die Verhandlungen für ein neues und umfassendes, auf dem
Kyoto-Protokoll aufbauendes Klimaschutzregime abgeschlossen sein, damit
nach dem Ende der ersten Verpflichtungsperiode des Kyoto-Protokolls
2012 keine Lücke entsteht.Beschluss -/CP.13 - Aktionsplan von Bali Die Klimakonferenz auf Bali hat zentrale Weichen für die Verhandlungen
eines Klimaregimes für die Zeit nach 2012 gestellt. Nach intensiven
Verhandlungen und mit 24 stündiger Verspätung konnten sich die
Vertragsparteien auf den Bali Aktionsplan verständigen. Er
unterstreicht den Willen aller Vertragsparteien, angemessen zu einem
künftigen Klimaregime beizutragen und legt fest, dass alle Staaten über
ihre mess- und überprüfbaren Aktivitäten berichten müssen. Gemeinsam
mit einer Reihe von anderen Entscheidungen bildet er die Bali Roadmap,
das Verhandlungsmandat. 2009 auf der Klimakonferenz in Kopenhagen
sollen die Verhandlungen abgeschlossen werden. Download hier: pdf 109 KByte
Ergebnisse des Klimagipfels auf Bali - Rede des deutschen Bundesminister für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit Sigmar Gabriel - Bundestag, Berlin, 17.01.2008 "... Die Ergebnisse der Klimakonferenz auf Bali bilden eine gute Basis
für den Verhandlungsmarathon der nächsten zwei Jahre. Die Ergebnisse
sind wichtige Leitplanken, um 2009 auf der Klimakonferenz in Kopenhagen
ein zukunftsweisendes weltweites Klimaabkommen zu erreichen. Die
Eckpunkte sind: Die Industrieländer müssen vorangehen und bereits bis 2020 die Emissionen der Treibhausgase drastisch reduzieren. Aber
auch die Entwicklungsländer, insbesondere Schwellenländer wie China und
Indien, sollen auf einen klimafreundlichen Entwicklungspfad
einschwenken. Für den dazu notwendigen Technologietransfer
an Entwicklungsländer wurde erstmals ein konkretes und umfassendes
Arbeitsprogramm verabschiedet. Entwicklungsländer wie Brasilien, welche die Entwaldung bekämpfen, werden finanziell unterstützt. Der
in Bali beschlossene Anpassungsfonds soll den Entwicklungsländern
helfen, mit den Folgen des Klimawandels besser fertig zu werden...."
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New Climate Change Roadmap Launched in Bali
Countries
agreed to launch negotiations on a new global deal to address climate
change after two weeks of intensive negotiations at the Bali Climate Change Conference.The
parties to the Climate Change Convention arrived at the
consensus decision after around-the-clock negotiations that concluded a
day after the conference was supposed to end. Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon called the Bali Agenda “a pivotal
first step toward an agreement that can address the threat of climate
change, the defining challenge of our time.” He applauded “the spirit
of cooperation shown by all parties to achieve an outcome that stands
to benefit all humanity.” The Bali “roadmap financing.”
calls for two years of negotiations that will end in 2009 on four key
areas,mitigation, adaptation, technology and It is hoped
that the new agreement will be ratified by countries in time to take
effect when the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. UN Climate Convention Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, said the
Conference delivered what was promised--to launch negotiations, to set
an agenda for the negotiations, and to set a deadline for the
negotiations. “Bali delivered what it needed to deliver.” He called the resulting decisions “ambitious, transparent and
flexible.” He said the decision of the parties referred to the science
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
and that it helped bring in important partners from business, finance
and the United Nations system. He added that the Bali decision breaks
down the strict separation of actions between developed and developing
countries. “This is an incredibly exciting agenda.” It was not an easy
negotiation and on the last day it even took the special intervention
of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yodhoyono and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
to exhort delegates to complete what seemed like hopelessly deadlocked
talks. In addition to launching negotiations toward a future
agreement,
countries also agreed in Bali on a number of important measures that
can begin immediately. This includes an agreement that will allow the Adaptation Fund
to fund projects in developing countries that will help people cope
with the impacts of climate change over the next four years. The Fund,
currently worth over $30 million and which can grow by as much as $300
million by 2012, will get its resources from a two per cent levy on all
transactions of the Clean Development Mechanism. The Bali Conference also agreed on a new programme to scale up investment for the transfer of clean technologies
to developing countries. It was widely agreed in Bali that for poorer
countries to avoid the same development mistakes of industrialized
countries, they would need newer and cleaner technologies. Deforestation,
which causes 20 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions, also
figured on the agenda in a major way for the first time in climate
change discussions. Countries agreed on a range of measures to study
and assess the issue—including finding out just how to calculate
emissions from deforestation, as well as encouraging demonstration
projects that can address the needs of local and indigenous
communities. Representatives of non-governmental organizations were
featured
prominently in Bali, often pressuring negotiators to take a more
proactive stand on climate change, and also in providing information on
various issues, such as deforestation and the need to save peatlands. - Anup Shah,
COP13—Bali Climate Conference,
GlobalIssues.org, Tuesday, January 01, 2008
The UN conference on climate change held in Bali, Indonesia in
December 2007 led to a final agreement known as the “Bali Roadmap”. The conference, more officially known as COP-13, or Conference of the Parties, Thirteenth session, 3-14 December 2007, Bali, Indonesia. The
meeting drew more than 10,000 participants, including representatives
of over 180 countries and observers from intergovernmental and
nongovernmental organizations, and the media. The Bali Roadmap
outlined a new negotiating process to be concluded by 2009 to feed into
a post-Kyoto (i.e. a post-2012) international agreement on climate
change. The Roadmap included a decision to launch an Adaptation Fund as
well as further decisions on technology transfer and on reducing
emissions from deforestation. But the conference was also accompanied by controversy, including
The US position being at odds with most of the rest of the world Talk
of developing countries’ responsibilities (such as China and India)
while rich countries (the source of the problem) have made little
progress, themselves.
As Inter Press Service (IPS) summarized: The
deep frustration shared by the members of G-77, a 130-member bloc of
developing countries spanning Africa, Asia and Latin America, to U.S.
objections to language in the final text of the roadmap was best echoed
by the delegate from Papua New Guinea. “If you cannot lead, leave it to
the rest of us. Please get out of the way,” a visibly angry Kevin
Conrad told U.S. officials to cheers from other delegates.… It
was a dispute over one paragraph in the section on the future role of
developing countries to help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases
(GhGs).… “The G-77 had accepted a draft last night, but this morning we
noticed there was a change,” Kirit Parikh, member of the Indian
planning commission and a delegate on New Delhi’s team to the Bali
meeting, told IPS. “We are not sure who was behind it. This was
unacceptable to us.” The U.S. government found itself
isolated during the final session, as [head of the U.S. government
delegation, Paula] Dobriansky insisted on the mechanics of mitigation
in the developing world being placed as a priority “because developing
countries have made statements (about GhG mitigation) but (there are)
no commitments. That is what we want.” The other powerful player at
this meeting, the European Union, threw its weight behind the G-77.
—
Marwaan Macan-Markar, US Herded Into Consensus in Bali, Inter Press Service, December 15, 2007
Campaign groups such as Friends of the Earth, many of whom were at the talks themselves, were disappointed with the outcome, saying targets were watered down to mere footnotes in the final text. The mainstream British media, as well as other European outlets had been quite critical of the US stance and tactics. As IPS also noted, Pakistani
ambassador Munir Akram, chairman of the G-77, told journalists: “We,
the developing countries, have had an uphill battle at this conference
to protect our legitimate interests. We had to fight every inch of the
way to secure our objectives.” He even hinted that threats,
“including trade sanctions,” had been made. While Akram did not
elaborate, European diplomatic sources involved in the negotiations
revealed that U.S. delegates had, at one point, introduced issues such
as “good governance” in the developing world as a condition for
Washington to be part of the Bali Roadmap.
—
Marwaan Macan-Markar, US Herded Into Consensus in Bali, Inter Press Service, December 15, 2007
What
were the kind of objectives the developing world was trying to ensure?
That they were not scapegoats for climate change. For many, many years
now, it has been recognized that the rich nations have been mostly at
fault for climate change, because their greenhouse emissions have
lingered in the atmosphere for decades. Some have called this a natural debt owed to the developing world (just as the developing world have a financial debt to the rich). For
some rich countries to want to avoid action until countries like India
and China are subject to similar targets has been seen by much of the
world as actually being unfair, especially as the rich nations have not
reduced their emissions much. For example, the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is quoted here at length: Responsibility needs rights. The
tragedy of the atmospheric common has been the lack of rights to this
global ecological space. As a result, countries have borrowed or drawn
heavily and without control. They have emitted greenhouse gases far in
excess of what the Earth can withstand. This was because they could
emit without limits or quotas and were “free riding” on this natural
capital. Some researchers have called this the “natural debt” of the
North, as against the financial debt of the South. This is the
science and the politics of CO2. One tonne of CO2 emitted in 1850 is
the same as a tonne emitted today. The greenhouse gases … have long
lifetime in the atmosphere; these gases are still warming the
atmosphere, at any given year. The ‘sinks’—forests, oceans and
soils—are the only cleaners of this dirt. The net emissions add up to
the space that a nation has appropriated in the global atmospheric
common and therefore its responsibility for the climate change. Calculated
in terms of the total emissions of each country, since the early 1900s,
we find that every living American carries a natural debt burden of
more than 1,050 tonnes of C02 (see graph: Cumulative CO2 emissions).
In comparison, every living Chinese has a natural debt of 68 tonnes and
every living Indian, a mere 25 tonnes. Therefore, even with all the
talks of India and China catching up with rich world in terms of total
emissions, the fact is in terms of natural debt it will take many more
decades before this happens. This principle was accepted by the
climate convention, which agreed that the rich world had to reduce its
emissions to make space for the poor to grow. In 1997, the Kyoto
Protocol set the first, hesitant and weak, target for reduction by the
rich countries. But this agreement has been more of less reneged on.
The per capita emission of CO2 from fuel combustion in the US is still
roughly 20 tonnes per year; between 6 tonnes and 12 tonnes for most
European countries. This is not comparable to the per capita emissions
of China, roughly 4 tonnes and 1.1 tonnes in India.
—
What equals effective, Down To Earth Magazine, CSE, December 15, 2007
(The
above article also notes the disparities within nations, including
countries such as India, where the wealthy do consume far more than the
rich, and that needs addressing too.) CSE also points out that India and China are not that energy inefficient as often believed: Myth 1:
China and India are energy-inefficient and therefore grossly polluting.
However, recent reports show this “belief” is founded on myths. The
World Bank, in its October 2007 report on growth and CO2 emissions,
finds that India is 1.5 times more efficient than the US in terms of
emissions calculated in purchasing power parity terms. Highly-abused
China is slightly more inefficient than the us— despite being the
world’s largest manufacturing hub (see table: Comparative emissions efficiency).
—
Efficiency / sufficiency, Down To Earth Magazine, CSE, December 15, 2007
(The
second myth they felt was “Efficiency, not sufficiency, will cut
emissions.” They argue that while efficiency is of course important,
there are examples where say car emissions have become better but
people have been driving more, thus overall driving up emissions.) In addition to the various links above, also see the following: More from GlobalIssues.org on Climate Change - Conferences of Parties (COP): - Vienna Climate Change Talks
27 - 31 August 2007:
The fourth session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties
under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG 4) and the fourth workshop under the dialogue on long-term
cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing implementation of the
Convention took place at the Austrian Center Vienna (ACV), Vienna, Austria on 27-31
August 2007
Die Bewertung der verfügbaren wissenschaftlichen und
sozioökonomischen Informationen zur Klimaänderung sowie der Möglichkeiten zur Vermeidung der Klimaänderung
und zur Anpassung daran; Auf Anfrage die Erteilung von wissenschaftlichen/technischen/sozioökonomischen
Ratschlägen an die Konferenz der Vertragsparteien (COP)
zur Klimarahmenkonvention (UNFCCC).
Seit 1990 hat der IPCC eine Reihe von Wissensstandsberichten, Sonderberichten,
Technischen Papieren, methodischen Anleitungen und andere Produkte
erarbeitet, die zu Referenzwerken geworden sind und von den politischen
Entscheidungsträgern, Forschenden und anderen Experten häufig
gebraucht werden. Der
dritte Sachstandsbericht (TAR) von 2001 besteht aus den Berichten der
Arbeitsgruppen I, II und III des IPCC und dem Synthesebericht.
![](http://www.un.org/climatechange/images/HLE_poster_lg.jpg) UN Headquarters, New York, 24 September 2007 - United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will seek to advance the global
agenda on climate change when he meets with heads of state and other
top officials from more than 150 countries at United Nations
Headquarters on 24 September. More than 70 heads of state or
government will attend the one-day event, making it the largest meeting
ever of world leaders on climate change. The high-level event —
which takes place one day before the opening of the UN General
Assembly’s annual General Debate — is aimed at securing political
commitment and building momentum for the UN Climate Change Conference
in Bali where negotiations about a new international climate agreement
should start. The Bali meeting, from 3 to 14 December, will convene the
Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. "Bali
must advance a negotiating agenda to combat climate change on all
fronts, including adaptation, mitigation, clean technologies,
deforestation and resource mobilization," said Mr. Ban, who has made
the issue one of his top priorities. "Bali must be the political
response to the recent scientific reports by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change. All countries must do what they can to reach
agreement by 2009, and to have it in force by the expiry of the current
Kyoto Protocol commitment period in 2012." READ MORE>> - WMO - World Meteorological Organization - is the UN system's voice on the state and behaviour of
the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it
produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.
- Informationen
zur Klimarahmenkonvention
+ Kyoto Protokoll
- WegenerCenter
- Wegener Zentrum für Klima und
Globalen Wandel an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
- Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK) - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) - was founded in 1992 and now has a staff of about 150 people. At
PIK researchers in the natural and social sciences work together to
study global change and its impacts on ecological, economic and social
systems. They examine the Earth system's capacity for withstanding
human interventions and devise strategies for a sustainable development
of humankind and nature. PIK research projects are interdisciplinary
and undertaken by scientists from the following five departments:
Integrated Systems Analysis, Climate System, Natural Systems, Social
Systems and Data & Computation.
- Protecting our Environment - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Homepage + Gov. Schwarzenegger Applauds U.S. Mayors for Fight against Climate Change
- Seattle
Climate Action Plan homepage - Action
Plan
- Acrobat PDF 850 kb
- US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
- On February 16, 2005 the Kyoto Protocol, the international
agreement to address climate disruption, became law for the 141
countries that have ratified it to date. On that day, Seattle Mayor
Greg Nickels launched an initiative to advance the goals of the Kyoto
Protocol through leadership and action by at least 141 American cities.
Mayor Nickels, along with a
growing number of other US mayors,
is leading the development of a US
Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
- United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) is a group of businesses and leading environmental organizations
that have come together to call on the federal government to quickly
enact strong national legislation to require significant reductions of
greenhouse gas emissions. USCAP has issued a landmark set of principles and recommendations to underscore the urgent need for a policy framework on climate change. More >
--------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- - Europäisches Zentrum für Erneuerbare Energie (EEE) in Güssing (
www.eee-info.net ) -
1990 gelang es im Gemeinderat von Güssing einen Grundsatzbeschluss
zu erreichen: 100-‑prozentiger Ausstieg aus der fossilen
Energieversorgung. 14 Jahre später spricht man bereits vom wichtigsten
Beschluss des Gemeinderates aller Zeiten. In der Verantwortung der
Stadt lag auch der Beginn der ersten Umsetzungsmaßnahmen des
Energiekonzeptes nämlich Energieeinsparung. Alle im Gemeindezentrum
befindlichen Objekte und Anlagen wurden energetisch optimiert mit dem
Ergebnis, dass die Ausgaben für Energie im Gemeindebudget beinahe
halbiert werden konnten. Die ersten „Umwelterfolge“ waren ein Grund und
Ansporn am Konzept „Energieautarke Stadt“ konsequent weiter zu arbeiten
und weitere Projekte umzusetzen.
- Energiewende.com - Erneuerbare Energie - news über erneuerbare energie (klimawandel)
- Elektromobil- und Elektrofahrzeug-Portal (Elektroautos - autofahren mit solarkraft)
- EnergyBulletin - publishes news and research
concerning: The current situation and trajectory, such as oil &
gas
- production data, economic or societal clues to decline profiles,
and relevant institutional pronouncements; Innovations or partial
solutions to this crisis, such as renewable energy generation capacity
and research (including EROEI assessments), alternative financial
systems, or post-carbon urban agriculture; Any other issues which
assist our understanding of the broader implications of the peak.
- Informationskreis KernEnergie (IK) in Deutschland hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht,
die Diskussion über die friedliche Nutzung der Kernenergie
durch die Vermittlung von Fakten zu objektivieren und darüber
hinaus Perspektiven einer zuverlässigen Energieversorgung
aufzuzeigen
- The Oil Drum: A community discussion about
peak oil
- Oil
Depletion Protocol: A
Plan for a Sensible Energy Future...As we move into an era of oil
depletion and energy constraint, everything from transportation to
medicine to food to climate change response strategies will be
affected. Almost everything we do is dependent on oil. The transition
to a future of reduced oil supply will require the development of
clean, reliable, and renewable energy sources and reduced oil
production and consumption. The Oil Depletion Protocol will allow us to
accomplish both - simply, conservatively, and cooperatively. It is a
plan for a sensible energy future.
- Oil
Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC) is an independent,
UK-registered educational charity working to raise international public
awareness and promote better understanding of the world's oil-depletion
problem.
- Association
for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas(ASPO)
- Peak
Oil -
Exploring the Issue of
Hydrocarbon Depletion
- Post Carbon Institute
-
Learning
to
Live in a Low Energy World
- Global Oil Watch is a web portal providing news
and resources for energy industry professionals and analysts.
-------------------------------------------------- Chemikalien - Gefährliche Abfälle (Hazardous Waste)
-------------------------------------------------- Artenschutz - Biodiversität - Informationen
zur Artenvielfaltkonvention - Internationale Konventionen/Abkommen mit Bezug zur Biodiversität (CBD)
- Biodiversity
Hot Spots - "The most remarkable
places on Earth are also the most threatened." Thus begins Conservation
International’s introduction to the world’s
biodiversity hotspots, so-named for the wealth of unique species they
house.
- NOAA
Ocean Explorer - National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration is determined to penetrate every minnow
hideout and barnacle cluster of your realm, and with technology this
advanced, there’s no stopping this league of swashbuckling
scientists.
- MANGREEN - Mangrove Ecological Restoration in India - Dieses Projekt wurde
in enger Abstimmung mit der lokalen Naturschutzorganisation OMCAR
(Ocean Marine Conservation, Awarness and Research) entwickelt. Die
indische Organisation für marinen Naturschutz ist seit Jahren im Schutz
der Meeresschildkröten und der Küstenökosysteme in Tamil Nadu aktiv mit
dem Ziel zerstörte und stark bedrohte Mangrovenwälder wieder
aufzuforsten.
- Global
Volcanism Program - The
Program seeks to
document the eruptions of all volcanoes, great and small, over the past
10,000 years.
-------------------------------------------------- - UNDP - United Nations
Development Programme
- UNEP - United Nations
Environmental Programme + World Environment Day 5 June 2007
- UNEP - Division of Environmental Policy Implementation
- Rio
+ 5 - Folgeprozeß der Weltkonferenz zu
Umwelt und Entwicklung in Rio 1992
- Rio
+ 10 -
Förderung nationaler Strategien nachhaltiger Entwicklung
- Österreichisches
Bundesministerium für Land- und
Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft
- Österreichisches
Umweltbundesamt/Federal Environment Agency
- Deutsches Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (BMU)
- Europäische
Kommission GD XI Umwelt
- Europäische Umweltagentur
- Die Europäische Umweltagentur ist die führende
Umweltbehörde Europas, deren Aufgabe es ist,
Entscheidungsträgern und der Öffentlichkeit
rechtzeitig sachdienliche, themenspezifische und zuverlässige
Informationen bereitzustellen, um so eine nachhaltige Entwicklung zu
fördern und zu einer deutlichen, messbaren Verbesserung der
Umwelt Europas beizutragen.
- Institute
of Ecology and Conservation Biology (IECB), Universität Wien
- Umweltinstitut München- eine der größten überparteilichen Umweltschutzvereine in Dtld. - Forschung/Analyse/Info
- Worldwatch
Institute
-
offers a unique blend of
interdisciplinary research, global focus, and accessible writing
that has made it a leading source of information on the
interactions among
key environmental, social, economic trends.
- Heinrich
Böll Foundation - Weltgipfel
Johannesburg 2002
- Harvard
University Center for the Environment
- Harvard
Law School Library: ILS Web Sites: International
Environmental Law
- Max
Planck Institut für
ausländisches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg -
Dokumente + Links zum Thema "Environmental Protection / Umweltschutz"
- ASIL
Guide to Electronic Resources:"International
Environmental Law"
- Verzeichnisse zum Thema Umwelt
-
Die Seite der Université
Libre de Bruxelles - Université d'Europe
ist in Englisch,
Französisch und
Niederländisch
verfügbar.
- The
Ecologist: The
world’s most respected environmental affairs magazine.
- Ökonews - Die erste Tageszeitung
für Erneuerbare Energie und Nachhaltigkeit
- Umweltschutz-NEWS.de
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